Spice grinding and blending · California

Pacific Spice Company, Inc.

Commerce, CA · ~130 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pacific Spice Company, Inc. runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Spice grinding and blending workplace, earning a grade D.

Pacific Spice Company, Inc.: 7.1 TCR = 174% of Spice grinding and blending BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pacific Spice Company, Inc. safety composite

Pacific Spice Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Pacific Spice Company, Inc.: 8.5 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.13× in 2024

Pacific Spice Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.3 from 8.5 in 2021 to 10.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Commerce, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 174% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #11/19
  • PHOTO Waterloo
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waterloo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pacific Spice Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Pacific Spice Company, Inc. averages 7.1 TCR (174% of the Spice grinding and blending BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Pacific Spice Company, Inc. TCR series: 2021=8.5 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Pacific Spice Company, Inc. falls in its industry

200 Spice grinding and blending establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 19 Spice grinding and blending employers in California.

Pacific Spice Company, Inc. (130 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pacific Spice Company, Inc.
Pacific Spice Company, Inc. (130 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Pacific Spice Company, Inc. has more employees than the Spice grinding and blending median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 10.7 0.9 12 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 17 2 0
2022 8.5 7.3 6 1 0
2021 8.5 8.5 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · CA · Commerce

200 Spice grinding and blending employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 163 employers in Commerce, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Waterloo 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFS Mobile Plant 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newly Weds Foods 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5441 NE 148th Ave 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE TRCC, Inc. 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saticoy Lemon Association - Santa Paula 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sierra Land and Cattle Co LLC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE MODESTO SERVICE CENTER 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferguson Complex 2,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 587 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCAM, LLC 1,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DLA3 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Bell Cultivation 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Capitol Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. (formerly known as Marion Plywood Corporation) 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Grapevine 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thursday Pools 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polymer Conversions, Inc. 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tull Brothers Inc 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE 200-DREES-DALLAS 130 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.